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IBM educates users with new Autonomic Computing Zone
IBM developerWorks has announced the availability of a free Autonomic Computing Zone to help ISVs, customers and developers at all levels learn the skills they need to build and implement on-demand environments for business transformation.
[2004/4/13 UC Newsdesk]
Former Sun executive joins utility computing start-up
Cassatt Corporation, an enterprise infrastructure software start-up headed by BEA co-founder and former CEO Bill Coleman, has named Richard Green executive vice president of Product Development. Green will lead global development efforts at Cassatt. He joins the company from Sun Microsystems where he served most recently as vice president of Sun Developer Platforms and Java Software.
[2004/4/13 UC Newsdesk]
Veritas and BEA team up for open utility computing platform
Veritas and BEA Systems have jointly announced a global strategic alliance aimed at helping users deploy enterprise applications on an open, heterogeneous utility computing platform. The two companies plan to provide an integrated offering and engage in joint development, sales and marketing activities. The new offering aims to combine BEA's service-oriented architecture approach with Veritas' utility computing model to increase availability, performance of applications and reduce operational costs.
[2004/4/12 UC Newsdesk]
Verari Systems acquires MPI Software Technology Inc.
Verari Systems, a developer of platform-independent blade computing systems, has announced the acquisition of MPI Software Technology Inc., a provider of high-performance software solutions for managing parallel and cluster computers. The acquisition is part of a new strategy for Verari, which was previously known as RackSaver, to change its focus from making rack-optimized servers and high-performance workstations to developing blade server systems for utility computing.
[2004/4/12 UC Newsdesk]
Japan's "AGILIT" 100% uptime hosting service to be based on Opsware
Opsware, a provider of IT automation and utility computing software, has announced it will be the automation platform for a new Japanese hosting business, "AGILIT", launched by NTT Communications. EDS will provide its hosting expertise and processes to deliver the AGILIT service. To be available in June 2004, AGILIT will offer users a 100% scheduled uptime service level agreement (SLA).
[2004/4/7 UC Newsdesk]
Grid computing made simple
An article on Grid Computing in scientific research and the OptimalGrid Project by James H. Kaufman, Toby J. Lehman, and John Thomas for The Industrial Physicist, published by The American Institute of Physics. The authors are researchers on the OptimalGrid Project at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California.
[2004/3/31 The Industrial Physicist]
Grid for automotive supplier Magna Steyr
IBM has introduced a new Grid-based product offering that helps automotive and aerospace companies speed time to market and improve the quality of their products through a more rapid and comprehensive engineering design analysis. By grid-enabling CATIA, IBM's collaborative, virtual product development application developed by Dassault Systèmes, IBM and Platform Computing, a Grid software provider, helped Magna Steyr to analyze the components of an entire vehicle in just a single evening. In the past, such an analysis took several days.
[2004/3/30 UC Newsdesk]
HP buys TruLogica for user-provisioning software
HP announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire TruLogica, Inc., a privately held provider of IT user-provisioning software headquartered in Dallas. The automated IT user provisioning technology helps greatly with adding users, managing access privileges and changing passwords. Terms of the deal, which is subject to customary closing conditions, were not disclosed.
[2004/3/11 UC Newsdesk]
Grid becomes IT investment priority of 2004
According to new survey results released by Platform Computing, IT decision makers from global organizations have identify grid computing as the sixth highest IT investment priority for 2004. A total of 100 IT decision makers were surveyed, from companies spanning a variety of sectors, including financial services, government, electronics, healthcare, automotive/aerospace and utilities.
[2004/3/4 UC Newsdesk]
Sun help universities worldwide to deploy grid technologies
Sun Microsystems has listed some academic and research institutions which the company has helped to deploy Grid technologies. From Delaware Biotechnology Institute at the University of Delaware, to University of Namur (Notre Dame) in Belgium, to Purdue University, the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas (Austin), and the National Central University in Taiwan, academia is deploying Sun's N1 Grid computing solutions to power its computing infrastructure and advance the academic research environment.
[2004/3/2 UC Newsdesk]
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